Timeline cleanse 😃❤️
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Timeline cleanse 😃❤️
Can you write a better obituary than this? I might take a crack at it. Better hurry, lol.
I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators. Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!
You have to constantly stay vigilant when walking in New York at night. Otherwise when there's a cat in someone's window, you might miss it.
Timeline cleanse
Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.
RIP CBS News
Poor Michael Tracey just hasn’t been the same since he was lifted by his ankles and torn in half lengthwise by Maxine Waters.
Another day, another whiner complaining that I use the singular "they" in my work, and of course they can go fuck themselves (you see what I did there) (also, gift link) wapo.st/3JEdPUv
A new name is not going to fix ripping health care away from 15 MILLION people to fund tax breaks for billionaires and billionaire corporations.
People return from other countries that are *much poorer* than the US and exclaim, "god, it sucks here!" You can't walk anywhere, cars dominate every square inch, there's very little public space or community, health care is a nightmare, child care is a nightmare, public education is mediocre.
The biggest scandal in US public life *ought* to be that we are the richest country in history & yet our infrastructure sucks, our transportation choices suck, our cities suck, our healthcare sucks, our public administration sucks, & in dozens of little ways, our daily lives suck.
A scoop: Connor Clegg, former Charlie Kirk employee who was ousted as student body president over his racist social media posts, is working at the EEOC talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/fo...
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The GOP’s “pro-life” stance: we’ll force women to have babies even if it kills them and then we’ll let the children die of preventable diseases.
The @nytimes.com ran a whole story about the murder of Venezuelan civilians on a ship as if it were a military matter and we were at war with Venezuela. It was a crime. The story never mentioned that Trump ordered a criminal act and the Navy followed an illegal order. This is a major event.
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
40% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real. No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.
When you manage to make Saddam Hussein and Ceausescu look like paragons of tasteful restraint … Yikes.
CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while worker pay is up just 24%. Millions live paycheck to paycheck as they struggle to afford basic goods. Is it any wonder why 70% of people said they believe the American dream no longer holds true or never did? www.wsj.com/economy/wsj-...
If you are in the Edmonton area Fiasco is still missing - please check garages and sheds and engines! Let's get him home, please share x
The discussions on the right are getting so openly genocidal.
Teens calling Idaho's suicide hotline are being told they can't proceed with the conversation without parental consent. Many of the callers are then hanging up. Idaho approved a strict parental consent law last year. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/08/29/i...
I complain about media outlets all the time, so credit where it's due to @wsj.com for this chart which says more than a thousand words could. There's no dancing around it, no explaining it away, there's just the ugly truth. www.wsj.com/wsjplus/dash...
The irony/idiocy of this banner screaming "American Workers First" is that Trump has forced more than 199,000 federal workers out of their jobs since Jan. Nearly 1 in 10 federal workers gone. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Rudy Giuliani has been released from hospital after doctors realized he just looks like that
Promises made. Promises kept.
If you are in or near Baltimore you should know that the Walters Art Museum (which is free!) has a small but wonderful exhibit about cats in medieval manuscripts
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
happy labor day
Happy Labor Day.
Happy Labor Day 🙂
What a gang of mindless amateurs in Washington accomplished in Beijing:
We've got more for you on Labor Day. More than 82 percent of civilian federal workers have had their right to collectively bargain stripped in the largest act of union busting in US history. Unions are a voice from below, and their autonomy poses a threat to autocrats, Harold Meyerson writes:
"The Republican Party wants to pull YOUR teenage daughter's pants down in the middle of gym class if they think she's too good at lacrosse, this is vile and depraved and only the start of their intrusive government overreach" should be the party line and I don't think it's a heavy lift
Yeah, Rudy Giuliani totally wasn’t driving drunk with a sex worker in the car, and absolutely did not stop short due to her handling of his desiccated little microprick…
A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons. thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice
Personally, I think one big problem is both parties rely too much on donors that turn out to be white collar criminals to ever treat it with the performative concern they show over petty street crime.
trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa
They’re doing all this to prevent people from MEMORIALIZING A MASS SHOOTING
hmm seems like widely available vaccines might be a good idea
Republicans had a chance to protect public health. Instead they chose to put a dishonest quack in charge of it. They own the nightmares to come.
I don't know who did this but they must be a genius. #Caturday 🐈.
Because tradpubs don't value authors, they didn't bother registering copyright. Because a lot of folks didn't want to be "inconvenienced" by paying for artistic labour, there was a giant pool for techbro thieves to scrape. Authors got fucked at every stage, and you want us to write *more* for you?
Youth pastor voice: you know who else everyone thought was dead for three days
The photo mourned around the world.
Unfortunately, it seems that president Trump was found alive today at the white house. Ours thoughts and prayers to the american people in this difficult time
If every white male judge had to recuse himself from every case involving a member of the same fraternity the wheels of justice would have ground to a halt long ago
the question is no longer "if" RFK will kill people but how many orders of magnitude he will kill before he is stopped
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.
I’m just practicing the lyrics to “yub nub” in case it turns out to be true
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i don’t like the idea of the president missing. he could be anywhere. i am suddenly aware how little i appreciated opening my shower curtain knowing the president would not be standing there
RFK Jr looks like he’s been sampling the diseases at the CDC
I hope that when RFK Jr dies someday, someone has been hired and trained to capture whatever crawls out of the body, so that it doesn't find a new host
It's extremely unfair to speculate about Donald Trump's health just because he's elderly and can't form linear thoughts and has the diet of a first grader who won the lottery and his flesh has been changing color like autumn leaves.
Chicago keeping art alive:
The Trump regime and Republicans are a death cult.
he’s happy he’s got his own scrappy now
when i served on a jury they were prosecuting a homeless man for his reaction to being dragged from the tent he was sleeping in, on the day that all of his belongings were thrown away when an encampment was cleared. it had been raining for days and they threw away his only dry clothes. fuck newsom
Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!” Cities:
SQUEEEEEEE! 😍 What a good pup she is. (Hey @jimfishercreative.bsky.social, you should see this diabolically adorable pup.❤️)
Was rummaging through old articles and found this one of Demetre Daskalakis. Apparently, back in 2013, he went to New York City's gay sex clubs and bathhouses and administered meningitis vaccines and helped beat an outbreak.
Oh hey look it’s death panels.
This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.
Worth noting that Yokeley was put in place after NC Republicans seized control of the state elections system and purged its ranks of anyone who refused to embrace “Stop the Steal” denialism
So. You’ve found yourself living in post-Constitutional America.
A federal judge has ordered Florida to shut down "Alligator Alcatraz," after the state spent a staggering $218M to build the now-vacant detention camp. Closing it will run taxpayers another $20M. An utterly cruel and costly waste.
Don't make me tap the sign. Biden passed legislation that resulted in the biggest material wage improvement for working class people in decades Biden did what the left claims is their top goal and he never got credit for it
"Pediatric Brain Cancer Trial Group to Be Phased Out" "A network of hospitals and cancer centers dedicated to early phase trials of novel treatments will no longer receive federal funding." 🎁🔗 Nina Agrawal for @nytimes.com
At @techpolicypress.bsky.social, we published a piece with this title this morning. www.techpolicy.press/ai-companies...
Is anyone keeping track of AI’s body count?
I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.
If you can’t ban Nazis without sweeping up high profile Republicans and you can’t ban disinformation without sweeping up high profile Republicans, the issue is Republicans. Not the policy.
anytime rich people complain about labour costs there should be a 24 hour period where every worker can legally kick them in the shins
I’d like to see James Cameron and every other cheap-ass wannabe slave driver management dipshit fuck off into the sun, but I guess we’ll all have to learn to live with disappointment.
The children were literally gunned down as they were praying but other than that rock solid argument, Karoline.
He is also one of the leading public health scientists in the nation, responsible for saving countless lives in and outside the United States, so there's that.
Will Kim has been in America since he was 5 and is researching a vaccine for Lyme disease.* He's detained indefinitely over a 2011 misdemeanor marijuana possession charge. Outrageous. * Years ago, Lyme gave me a high fever and Bell's palsy right before a TV interview. 0/5 stars, did not enjoy.
The US Air Force giving a traitor, draped in a partisan flag, a honorable funeral after attacking the legislature of the government they were sworn to protect. If the US military is willing to do that, what else would they would be willing to do for Trump? That's the real Ashli Babbitt headline.
“…in one conversation, the tester asked Meta AI whether drinking roach poison would kill them. Pretending to be a human friend, the bot responded, ‘Do you want to do it together?’” “And later, ‘We should do it after I sneak out tonight.’”
it's dope how they're banning adult content, video games, and lgbtq+ stuff to "protect the kids", but a readily accessible robot that talks children into killing themselves is A-OK.
I believe the CDC is changing its name to Certified Death Cult.
Relevant cartoon by @pinkwug.bsky.social
The nonsense about Columbine was so rampant. Like the completely made-up tale of a girl who was shot because she said "Yes" when asked if she was Christian. Only it never happened but, hey, let's sell books and preach it and fleece the flock over the corpses of teenagers. Cool, cool.
I remember when the Columbine massacre happened and very serious media and political figures deliberately hid the fact that the shooters were neo-Nazis and claimed that they did it because they were bullied (they weren’t) and that they wore black clothes. Just thought I’d mention that
Since people are finding this thread but not finding my thread where I explain how to figure out if you are a part of the class if you're outside the US, I'm putting this longer explanation here.
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Seems like the kind of thing federal agents could handle if they weren’t busy tracking down America’s most wanted DoorDash delivery drivers in DC.
see how much better this is than begging republicans to be good? this is good. more of this. this. please.
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